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SSD performance

Unfortunately, I have lost the performance data I gathered when I upgraded my Mac mini with an SSD. Even with a Time Machine backup there will always be dataloss when moving over to a new hard drive. Here are some quick impressions about the upgrade.

I don’t know whether the improvements are due to the SSD or my other recent upgrade: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. I do know, however, that I did an incremental updated from Mac OS X 10.6.0 to 10.6.1 in 46 seconds—including a reboot! That is pretty impressive.

My Mac mini boots up even before my screen turns on. I don’t have to wait for anything anymore. Applications are more responsive and I have‘t seen the copying dialog more than a couple of times since upgrading.

The upgrade was definitely worth the cost. smile

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Comments

Charles SchlossChas4 Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:24:04 PM

I did an incremental updated from Mac OS X 10.6.0 to 10.6.1 in 46 seconds—including a reboot! That is pretty impressive.



bigeyes wow that is fast, fast internet?

http://www.speedtest.net/index.php

My Mac mini boots up even before my screen turns on


http://files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Drool.gif -

Charles SchlossChas4 Tuesday, October 6, 2009 3:41:48 AM

My mac shuts down in 15 seconds

10.4.11 (Intel, a non SSDdrive, 3 GB of ram)

fully booted in about 1 minutes if it does not do the power on test

Unregistered user Monday, November 23, 2009 8:47:46 PM

Ross writes: Hi there, I've just bought a Mac Mini last week. I'm about to add 4 gigs of Mushkin Enhanced Low Latency RAM and a Runcore SSD. I'd like to know what the fastest possible browser out there is? I'm currently using Mozila Minefield. Its pretty slick

Daniel Aleksandersendaniel Monday, November 23, 2009 8:54:45 PM

The fastest browser whould be Opera on a system without plug-ins and with few fonts. wink

Charles SchlossChas4 Monday, November 23, 2009 9:04:57 PM

I can say that Opera is the fastest, and even on My Mac it is really really fast

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